NY State Sen. Shirley Huntley Says She Will Be Arrested; NLPC Exposed Her Sham Charity

New York State Senator Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) announced on Saturday that she expects to be arrested on Monday on corruption charges. In March 2011, NLPC exposed a sham charity she founded called The Parent Workshop, to which she steered tens of thousands in taxpayer money.

NLPC’s Huntley allegations were a byproduct of our investigation of U. S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and a sham charity with which he was associated called New Direction Local Development Corporation. Among other irregularities, New Direction raised money for Hurricane Katrina victims who did not receive any assistance.

Sham charities are a way of political life in southeast Queens, where a number of elected officials are under investigation for steering money to groups they founded — and which were often staffed by cronies — and whose mission and spending is dubious.